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That article is about promotional budgets, which is at least subtly different than advertising budgets. For instance, it includes $15.9 billion in samples (which are certainly promotional, but giving patients free drugs does not immediately jump to mind when you say advertising).

The number there is from the figure here:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...



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